Martin Scorsese Scraps Frank Sinatra Biopic

Martin Scorsese will no longer pursue his long-planned Frank Sinatra biopic. In an interview with the Toronto Sun, the director exclaimed, “We can’t do it!” He continued, “I think it is finally over. They (remaining members of the Sinatra clan) won’t agree to it. Open it up again and I’m there!” The script for the film had been acquired by Universal Pictures in 2009. This past November, author Michael Chabon said he was working on the script, but indicated that the film would not come together.

In the Sun interview, Scorsese explained, “Certain things are very difficult for a family, and I totally understand. But, if they expect me to be doing it, they can’t hold back certain things. The problem is that the man was so complex. Everybody is so complex—but Sinatra in particular.” In the past, he said it was difficult to pen the Sinatra script because he was “a man who changed the entire image of the Italian-American. And that’s just one thing.”

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